How Art Made the World - trail to coincide
with BBC series; Body arts (permanent); Wilfred
Thesiger's Iraq, 1949-1958 (to 17.04.06). Pitt Rivers
Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford,
OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927, http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Enlightenment; The Sainsbury
African Gallery (permanent). The British Museum,
Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, tel. +44 (0)207 323
8299 (information desk); http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/index.html
African Worlds permanent exhibition;
Amazon to Caribbean (to 31.10.06); The Crow
(6 May to Oct 06); Khmer silks (14.05.06
to Feb 2007); Centenary Gallery; Environment
Room; West African Textiles (to 26.03.06).
Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23
3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872; http://www.horniman.ac.uk
Pacific encounters: Art and divinity in
Polynesia 1760-1860 (21.05-13.08.2006). Sainsbury
Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Tel: +44 (0)1603 593199; http://www.scva.org.uk; http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/sru/polynesia
FEBRUARY 2006
2 Feb 2006 Centre for Anthropology New
Seminar Series: Dr Keith Hart (Goldsmiths College, University
of London), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html
5-7 Feb 2006 Imagi-nation: The cultural
praxis of Zionism, Arizona State University. shaig@asu.edu;
http://www.asu.edu/clas/jewishstudies/conference.html
15-16 Feb 2006 Indigenous nations and
the academy. ASU Memorial Union, Turquoise Room, Arizona
State University, Tempe (Arizona/USA). Contact: Mary Cleveland,
ais@asu.edu
18-20 Feb 2006 Symposium on Maritime
Archaeology and History of Hawai'i and the Pacific, Kona
Coast, Big Island, Hawai'i. Theme: Our voyaging ancestors.
Contact: froning@mahhi.org;
http://www.mahhi.org
24-25 Feb 2006 27th Annual Ethnography
in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania's
Graduate School of Education, Philadelphia, PA. Theme: Educators
and ethnographers filling ideological and implementational spaces.
Contact: David Cassels Johnson, cue@gse.upenn.edu; http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/
MARCH 2006
1 Mar 2006, 5 pm. Repeat of Dame Marilyn
Strathern's Isaiah Berlin Lecture. Social Anthropology,
School of Social Sciences, Univ. of Manchester. http://www.socialsciences.man.ac.uk/socialanthropology
2 Mar 2006 Centre for Anthropology New
Seminar Series: Prof. Joanna Overing (University of St.
Andrews), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html
5-12 Mar 2006 American Association of
Physical Anthropologists 75th annual meeting,
Anchorage, AK, http://www.physanth.org/annmeet/
16-17 Mar 2006 Anthropologists and economists
in the face of globalization. Lille University of Science
and Technology (Lille 1), Villeneuve d'Ascq. Organized by the
Institut de Recherche. Contact: Sophie Goyat, sophie.goyat@univ-lille1.fr;
http://www.ur003.ird.fr/actus/anthr_eco_call.pdf
27-28 Mar 2006 Islam and bioethics:
Concerns, challenges and responses, Nittany Lion Inn, Penn
State Univ. http://rockethics.psu.edu/islam_bioethics/
28 Mar-2 Apr 2006 Society for Applied
Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Hyatt Regency Hotel. Theme:
World on the edge. http://www.sfaa.net; sfaa2006@sfaa.net.
APRIL 2006
6 Apr 2006 Centre for Anthropology New
Seminar Series: Prof. Stephan Feuchtwang (London School
of Economics), British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html
10-14 Apr 2006 ASA 2006 Diamond Jubilee,
University of Keele. Theme: Cosmopolitanism & Anthropology.
Contact: P.Werbner@keele.ac.uk, http://www.theasa.org/asa06
18-19 April 2006 Traditional medicine
and HIV/AIDS. Workshop by: Centre for African Studies, Department
of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies. Contact:
rm15@soas.ac.uk
21-22 Apr 2006 Periphery and policy.
New County Hall, Truro, Cornwall, UK. Conference organized by
RAI, Cornwall Council, College of St Mark. Contact: Tom Selwyn,
t.selwyn@londonmet.ac.uk;
http://www.therai.org.uk/rainews/urgent_rai_announcements.html.
See advert in this issue.
24-26 Apr 2006 Paleoanthropology Society
Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. http://www.paleoanthro.org
MAY 2006
4 May 2006 Centre for Anthropology New
Seminar Series: Dr. Heonik Kwon (University of Edinburgh),
British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html
5-7 May 2006 20th Pakistan Workshop:
Reflections and directions. The Rook Howe,
Lake District, UK. Marta Bolognani, splmb@leeds.ac.uk;
http://psg.anthropology.ac.uk/workshop2006/
9-14 May 2006 Canadian Anthropological
Society, Montreal, Canada, Concordia University. Theme:
Human nature/human identity: Anthropological revisionings.
http://www.casca.anthropologica.ca/an_casca2006cfp.htm
11-13 May 2006 Pacific Arts Association
- Europe. Annual conference organized by: Cambridge
University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Sainsbury
Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas,
University of East Anglia. Non-members welcome. Julia Martin,
j.martin@uea.ac.uk; http://www.pacificarts.org/PAAE.html
18-19 May 2006 Feeling the vibes:
Dealing with intangible heritage, Museum Ethnographers
Group Annual Conference 2006. Chris Wingfield, Birmingham Museum
& Art Gallery, Christopher_wingfield@birmingham.gov.uk,
http://www.bmag.org.uk/
JUNE 2006
2-3 Jun 2006 Annual Meeting and Conference
on Gypsy Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona,
USA. http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/
11-14 Jun 2006 25th Biannual Brazilian
Meeting of Anthropology, Goiania, Brazil. Theme: Anthropological
Knowledges and Practices: Challenges for the 21st Century.
http://www.abant.org.br
13-16 Jun 2006 Hierarchy and power in
the history of civilizations, Moscow, Russia.
Fourth International Conference of Russian Academy of Sciences
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies. Contact: civ-reg@inafr.ru;
http://civreg.ru/english/conf/hierarchy2006.html
19-21 June 2006 Sound and anthropology.
St Andrews University. Collaborative conference with London
College of Communications. Submission deadline: 15 February
2006. Contact: sjb20@st-andrews.ac.uk; or c.lane@lcc.arts.ac.uk
JULY 2006
10-12 Jul 2006 Connections, communities
and collections. ICOM-ICME Annual Conference 2006, Miami,
Florida, USA, http://icme.icom.museum
SEPTEMBER 2006
7 Sep 2006 Centre for Anthropology New
Seminar Series: Prof. Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen),
British Museum; http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/cfaseminars.html
18-21 Sep 2006 European Association
of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 9th bi-annual conference.
Archaeology and Anthropology Department, University of Bristol,
Bristol, UK. Theme: Europe and the World. http://www.nomadit.co.uk/~easa/
19-24 Sep 2006 European Association
of Archaeologists, Cracow, Poland. http://www.e-a-a.org/europe2.htm
NOVEMBER 2006
15-19 Nov 2006 105th AAA Annual Meeting,
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
DECEMBER 2006
1-2 December 2006 Polynesia: Current
perspectives on the arts of the past, British Museum. Public
conference organized by: Sainsbury Research Unit, Univ. of East
Anglia, British Museum, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania
& the Americas. Contact: Julia Martin, j.martin@uea.ac.uk; http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/sru/polynesia
3-7 Dec 2006, Cape Town. IUAES Inter-Congress.
Transcending postcolonial conditions: Towards alternative
modernities. Jointly with the 2006 annual conference of
the Pan-African Association of Anthropologists and Anthropology
Southern Africa. http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/10-congresses.htm
23-25 Jan 2007 L'anthropologie face
à ses objets : Nouveaux contextes ethnographiques, Campus
de Saint-Charles, Université de Provence, Marseille (France).
Contact: Olivier Leservoisier (o.leservoisier@wanadoo.fr). Submission
deadline: 15 April 2006. http://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/lms/Colloque.htm.
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